Information about this scabbard

This large straight scabbard is made with a heavy black lacquered leather body and sheet brass mounts.  Although these scabbards are straight, their wide body width handles the curved blades for which they were made.

The throat is open to the edges of the mount and the leather body is exposed.  It is the 15 mm diameter round frog stud in the center of  the right side of the throat mount that makes this variation unique.  The mounts are attached to the leather with two small brass rivets on both sides of the throat and tip.

The throat mount is 84 mm long and 44 mm wide.  The tip mount is 118 mm long and 40 mm wide.  The overall length is approximately 604 mm long. 

Information from other sources

Albert N. Hardin, The American Bayonet 1776 – 1964, "There are two basic scabbards issued with these arms, differing only only in their frog retaining devices.  Due to the nature of the frog design, the scabbard with the flat rectangular attachment is considered the earliest scabbard, and those equipped with the more common, round button attachment are regarded as later models." 

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